Oriental carpets, runners and rugs and some Jacquard reproductions .. (1910)
Humphries, Sydney, 1862-1941 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 280
e strangeness of the creaturesaround them, early weavers made attempts to reproduce theirforms, and prehistoric bone - carvings seem almost to justify asuggestion that animal forms even preceded some of those alreadynamed. Some of the finest examples of carpets, dating from thesixteenth century,… … Carpets Runners and Rugs of the graceful attitudes which harmonize well with the elaboratescroll and ornamental forms with which they are associated. 26. Human Forms. It may be suggested that the first employment of the human form might have been in the light of a joke, which, in view ofthe…
Jacquard, Joseph-Marie, 1752-1834 · `Abbas I, Shah of Iran, 1571-1629 · Rugs, Oriental
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